Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Aug 2009 20:49 UTC
While the tech media are all busy praising Windows 7, the operating system still obviously does have issues, it being Windows and all. Because we are talking about Windows, and not, say Ubuntu or Mac OS X, it comes with one big downside that will mostly hit new users of Windows 7 (meaning, everyone): the incredibly complicated upgrade paths.
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Ubuntu cannot do in place upgrades from 32bit to 64bit (Using the normal upgrade routes).
The best way would be to leave the home directory (Hopefully on a different partition), Install the 64bit version and the ia32-libs and then re-install the set a packages that were previously installed.
Upgrading from 9.04 x86 to 9.10 x86 or 9.04 AMD64 to 9.10 AMD64 is usually a simple process. Anecdotally, I did not face any issue upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04, however attempting an in-place upgrade of Windows has lead to doing a fresh install each time.
(Nice blur effect Thom)
If anything, the table shows that the upgrade process is still faulty. Probably because of all the pointless versions, complex licensing and the registry.